I encountered that many times, in unexpected places. And I have learned to recognize it when I see it.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
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… it came to me that what I had to do was to take pictures and concentrate upon people, only people, all kinds of people, people who paid me and people who didn’t.
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You go into a room and you know where you’re welcome; you know where you’re unwelcome.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were–their pride, their strength, their spirit.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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